Australian Colonial

  • Willem Janszoon

    Willem Janszoon
    Dutch Explorer Willem Janzoon becomes first European to map part of the Australian Coast
  • Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog

    Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog
    Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog lands on the island off Western Australia that now bears his name
  • Dutch vessel Batavia

    Dutch vessel Batavia
    Dutch vessel Batavia wrecks off western Australia resulting in mass murder and the marooning of two men on the mainland
  • Captain Cook

    Captain James Cook discovers Australia for the first time!
  • James cook gets Britain a area

    Lieutenant James cook claims east coast of Australia for Britain
  • Captain Arthur Phillip

    Captain Arthur Phillip Established a convict settlement at Sydney Cove
  • First Fleet

    The First Fleet is where the first convicts came to Australia and showed up
  • Smallpox

    The Smallpox outbreak spreads onto the Aboriginal and killing many of them it got to Australia by one of the Britian soldiers and they gave it to the Aboriginals
  • Coal!

    Coal!
    Coal is discovered in Australia in New Castle and more of it was found and used to heat things up and help cook things
  • Pemulwuy Aboriginal

    Pemulwuy Aboriginal
    Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy leads resistance against Sydney colonists
  • Merino Sheep

    Merino Sheep
    The merino sheep was now in Australia at this time and I think it was one of the first species of sheep in Australia and once the sheep started breeding the fluffyness came off the sheep and made into blankets and other great things
  • Hobart Town

    Hobart Town was established in Tasmania
  • Australia’s first coin

    Australia’s first coin
    Introduction of Australia’s first coin, the holey dollar
  • Port Authur

    Port Authur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania
  • No New Convicts in New South Whales

    British Government declares that no more convicts will go to New South Whales
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    GoldRush

    The gold rush was when lots of people around the world would come to Australia to find gold this made Australia populated and there were now miners License this allowed you to mine for gold and if you didn't have it you were put in a place and you had to pay money to get out
  • The last convicts arrive

    The last convicts got to Tasmania on the boat
  • The first railway

    The first railway
    Australia’s first railway line opens in Victoria
  • New Football

    New Football
    First organised game of Australian Rules football
  • The last convicts

    The last Convicts were transported to Australia and no more Convicts ever came to Australia because they released they were starting to over populate Australia so they stoped and put them in jail
  • Ayer Rock was found

    Ayer Rock was first found by some Europeans but we don't know exactly where they where when they found him but they might of Killed Ayer
  • A full blood aboriginal dies

    The last full blood Tasmanian Aboriginal Truganini dies at the hands of not other aboriginals but other people from Britain and once the last Full Blood Tasmanian Aboriginal you can't have anymore Full blood because there's no more Full Blood
  • White Australia policy

    White Australia policy
    White Australia policy Is when Australia became an actual country and it was amazing and free settlers just became people living on Australia and more people started coming so Australia was a country when the White Australia policy
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    World war 1

    World war 1 was a Devastating battle of the country's and it was terrible for the people who had to go to war and if they Died well then I don't know how there family's are feeling
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    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression is when no one could afford anything the prices were just to high and most people had to move to a place where things were free
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    World War 2

    World War 2 was when Hitler came to be known as an evil man he was a killer of anything and we won the war and if we didn't we wouldn't be speaking English it would be a different language